Talkin' Dust Bowl-Country Joe McDonald

[ti:Talkin' Dust Bowl] [ar:Country Joe McDonald] [al:Vanguard Visionaries] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talkin' Dust Bowl - Country Joe McDonald [00:07.33]Back in nineteen twenty seven [00:08.97]I had a little farm I called that heaven [00:11.10] [00:11.65]The prices up and the rain come down [00:13.13]And I hauled my crops all into town [00:15.38]I got the money [00:16.21] [00:17.23]Bought clothes and groceries [00:18.82]Fed the kids and raised a big family [00:21.06] [00:23.66]But the rain quit and the wind got high [00:25.88]A black old dust storm filled the sky [00:27.82]I traded my farm for a ford machine [00:30.21]Poured it full of this gasoline [00:31.61] [00:32.30]Started rocking and rolling [00:33.66] [00:34.58]Deserts and mountains to California [00:37.28] [00:40.40]Way up yonder on a mountain road [00:42.71]Hot motor and a heavy load [00:44.60]Going pretty fast I wasn't even stopping [00:46.81]Bouncing up and down like popcorn popping [00:48.84]I had a breakdown [00:49.81] [00:50.47]Kind of a nervous bustdown [00:51.82] [00:52.48]The mechanic fellow there charged me five bucks [00:55.10] [00:55.71]Said it was engine trouble [00:57.00] [01:00.25]Way up yonder on a mountain curve [01:02.46]Way up yonder in the piney wood [01:04.36]I gave that rolling ford a shove [01:06.27]And I coast as far as I could [01:07.91] [01:08.79]Commencing rolling [01:10.06]Picking up speed [01:10.95] [01:11.90]Come a hairpin turn and [01:13.56]I didn't make it [01:14.37] [01:16.57]No man alive I'm telling you [01:18.58]That the fiddles and the guitars really flew [01:20.61]That ford took off like a flying squirrel [01:23.22]And it flew halfway around the world [01:24.79] [01:25.62]Scattered the wives and children [01:27.58]All over the side of that mountain [01:29.30] [01:33.51]Got to California so dad gum broke [01:35.43]Dad gum hungry that I thought I'd choke [01:37.47]I bummed up a spud or two [01:39.08]And a wife fixed up some 'tater stew [01:41.58]We poured the kids full of it [01:43.02] [01:44.12]Mighty skinny kids [01:45.12] [01:45.89]Looked like a tribe of thermometers running around [01:48.32] [01:50.57]No man I swear to you [01:52.18]That was surely mighty thin stew [01:54.21]So d**n thin I really mean [01:56.22]You could read a magazine right through it [01:58.51] [01:59.21]Look at the pictures too [02:00.24] [02:01.11]Pretty whisky bottles and naked women [02:03.11] [02:04.40]Always have thought and always have figured [02:06.82]That if that d**n stew had been just a little bit thinner [02:11.33] [02:11.93]Some of these here politicians could have seen through it